The Cambridge companion to Australian art / edited by Jaynie Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Jaynie.

Series:

Cambridge companions

Cambridge companion series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Australian.

Art, Aboriginal Australian.

Physical Description:

xx, 377 pages, 120 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Australian art

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

From rock art to Australian modernism, from bark paintings to the Heidelberg School, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art provides a wide-ranging overview of the movements, themes and media found in Australian art. This Companion features essays that explore the influence of different cultures on Australian art, written by some of the leading scholars and professionals working in the field. Generously illustrated with over 200 colour images, from more than 40 collections and sites throughout Australia, this Companion provides a comprehensive exploration of the artistic identity of past and present Australia. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Cross-Cultural Encounters: Introduction / Jaynie Anderson Anderson, Jaynie 1

2 Special Places and Images on Rock: 50 000 Years of Indigenous Engagement with Australian Landscape / Paid Taaon Taaon, Paid 11

3 The Art of Contact: Encountering an Aboriginal Aesthetic from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries / Philip Jones Jones, Philip 22

4 Expressions of Social Identity by Settlers and Indigenes in the First 80 Years of British Colonisation / Mary Eagle Eagle, Mary 38

5 Imperial Perspectives on Art in Nineteenth-Century Australia / Alison Inglis Inglis, Alison 55

6 National Life and Landscape: The Heidelberg School as Mythmaker 1880-1905 / Ann Galbally Galbally, Ann 71

7 Australian Artists within a Wider World 1900-1930 / Anne Gray Gray, Anne 84

8 Print - Matters / Roger Butler Butler, Roger 97

9 Foreign Natives: Australian Modernism 1915-1955 / Anthony White White, Anthony 109

10 Art of Central Australia: Refigured Ground 122 John Carty / Alison French French, Alison 122

11 Transformations of Bark Painting since the Nineteenth Century / Luke Taylor Taylor, Luke 143

12 Coming to Terms with Aboriginal Art in the 1960s 153 Howard Morphy

13 The Story of the Sixties ... A Pile-Up on the Freeway of Advanced Art / Andrew McNamara McNamara, Andrew, Ann Stephen Stephen, Ann 168

14 The Gift that Time Gave: Myth and History in the Western Desert Painting Movement / Ian McLean McLean, Ian 180

15 Photography and Australia / Isobel Crombie Crombie, Isobel 193

16 Picturing Self-Determination: The Use of Photography by Indigenous Australian Artists / Jonathan Jones Jones, Jonathan 204

17 'Asian Art' and Australia / John Clark Clark, John 217

18 Post-Provincial, Still Peripheral: Australian Art on the Global Stage 1980-2009 / Anthony Gardner Gardner, Anthony 231

19 Transnational Virtuality: New Media Art, Contemporary Concerns / Terry Smith Smith, Terry 248

20 The Cross-Cultural Art Museum in Australia / Gerard Vaughan Vaughan, Gerard 261

21 Buying and Selling Australian Art: A Brief Historical Survey / Wally Caruana Caruana, Wally, Jane Clark Clark, Jane 290.

Notes:

"Gordon Darling Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107601581

1107601584

OCLC:

761013731